pedicel
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pedicel (plural pedicels)
- (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
- Synonyms: footstalk, strig
- cot en
- 2004, Martine Dorais et al., 5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking, Jules Janick (editor), Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170 ↗,
- Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.[cuticle cracking]
- (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk. - (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
- Synonyms: petiole
- A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
- The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
- 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10,
- Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.
- 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10,
- The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
- (zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
- 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87 ↗,
- Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.
- 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87 ↗,
- French: pédicelle
- German: Blütenstiel, Blütenstängel
- Italian: pedicello, gambo, fusto, caule, stelo
- Russian: цветоно́жка
- Spanish: pedicelo
- Spanish: pedicelo
- Spanish: pedicelo
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